A Voice-less Sunday gives The Block top spot

Nine’s The Block has won its first Sunday night since the show’s 2012 start.

As The Voice goes into its ‘battle rounds’, the high-rating singing competition dropped its Sunday show, which allowed The Block to claim top spot with 1.561m across the five city metro markets, according to preliminary results from OzTam.

Nine News Sunday took second place with 1.502m, followed closely by Seven News Sunday on 1.5m.

Seven’s Dancing With the Stars is struggling to capture the same numbers as in previous seasons, the show averaged around the 1.5m mark last year. Last night it did its seasonal best with 1.238m in fifth place for total viewers, benefiting from the lack of The Voice, which it had gone head to head with in its first two weeks.

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The series return took 1.076m on Sunday 15 April and last week took 0.991. However, Seven still had the highest channel share over the entire day with 24.6% over Nine’s 22.4% and Ten’s 13.9%.

Ten had its strongest night in weeks with its ‘Super Sunday’ line-up. The network got three shows in the top ten with highest show, Modern Family, taking 0.976m in seventh place of total viewers followed by The Biggest Loser in eighth place with 0.860m. New Girl came in in tenth spot with 0.804m.